Eric Marson’s Reviews > Man's Search for Meaning > Status Update

- man doesn’t need a tension less state (homeostasis), but rather the striving and struggling for a goal or a task

- logotherapy: future outcomes, not the what would you have done conversations
- logos in greek means meaning
- consists of fulfilling meaning instead of gratification and satisfaction
- he who has a why, can bear any how
- mental heath is based on a certain level of tension, what one has already achieved and what one is sought out to achieve or the gap between what one is and what one should be

- what you have experienced, no power on earth can take away from you
- don’t label a group as good or evil
- being liberated from pressure can damage a human

- a man who cannot see his provisional existence, was not able to aim for an end goal
- emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as so as we form a clear picture of it
- only say what you want to hear
- state of mind of a man and the state of immunity

- do not be conspicuous (easy to see)
- answer the question when asked but be silent about anything else disregarding the specific question
- human being is influenced by his surroundings
- apathy (lack of showing emotions)
- anything can be taken from a human besides one’s own attitude, In any given situation
- suffering is part of life

- make light out of anything miserable
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Interesting. Just talking about his camp days so far